Novelty device



Oct. 21, 1930. 5 u 1,778,890

NOVELTY DEVICE Filed Sept. 25. 1928 autumn Patented Get. 21, 1930 UNITED STATES s was s PATESA @FFICE NOVELTY DEVICE Application filed September 25, 1928. Serial No. 308,238.

Generically this invention relates to novelties, but it is more especially directed to the type of novelty whereby a pictorial representation may be made to present different 5 views by actuation of the device.

An important object of this invention is the provision of a frame for holding a photograph or other picture so constructed that pivotal actuation of the device varies the ex pression or perspective of the photograph or picture, thereby producing a fanciful effeet.

A further object of this invention is the provision of a clamp-like frame having its complemental sections curved to hold a photograph or other picture therebetween so as to present an uneven plane surface, whereby actuation of the device on its pivotal vertical axis changes and varies the eX- pression or perspective of the picture to present a variety of expressions or views to produce a fanciful or illusional result.

With these and other objects in view, which will become apparent as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts, hereinafter more fully described and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which like characters of reference indicate like parts throughout the several figures, of which:

Fig. l is a front elevation of the device, with the picture operatively positioned in the holder;

Fig. 2 is a side view of the device illustrated in Fig. 1; and

Fig. 3 is a view of the device partially open with the picture removed.

Briefly stated my invention consists in the provision of a frame having complemental hinged sections and means for securing the sections together in clamping relation with a photograph or other picture secured between the frame sections, the complemental sections presenting correspondingly curved or uneven side edges whereby the picture when operatively positioned will aresent an uneven surface, said frame adapted to be constructed with a handle member projecting downward- 1y therefrom by means of which the angular in clamping contact with a picture let secured -which device may be employed with equal position of the frame may be changed to present a variety of continuously changing exprcsslons or views of the picture being eX- hibited, and it was to produce such a result that I designed the device forming the subject matter of this invention.

In the illustrated embodiment characterizing this invention there is shown a frame member 5 substantially rectangular in the present instance and preferably formed from a one-piece wire having one end soldered or otherwise connected with itself as at 6, the free end of said wire extending downwardly to form handle 7, having its lower extremity curved inwardly upon itself as at 8 to form a rounded extremity, so that when desired the device may be easily and freely pivotally actuated on suitable support, as will hereinafter more fully appear. A complemental frame member 9 is hingedly connected to the O member 5 in any well known manner as at 10, said member being an exact duplicate in shape and contour to that of member 5, havits inner end similarly connected as at 11 and a downwardly projecting member 12 in parallelism with handle but being shorter in length, and adapted to be engaged by slip ring 13, slidably mounted on the handle 7 to maintain said members 5 and 9 therebetween. g

lVhile I have preferably shown the sides of the frame as presenting a series of alternately oppositely extending curves, it is to be understood that the complemental frame members may be correspondingly formed of a different number of curves extending in different directions or partially or wholly zigzag or otherwise, to present a further varia- 'tion in expression or to further vary the changeability of the picture being exhibited without departing from the spirit of my invention.

From the above it is apparent that I have designed a novel game or mirth provoking device whereby actuation of the device on its pivotal Xis will present a variety of continuously changing expressions or vi ws and advertising medium.

It will be further observed that the device is adaptable to a variety of uses, manufacturable at a negligible cost, simple in construction and eficient for the purposes in tended.

Although in practice I have found that the form of my invention illustrated in the accompanying drawings and referred to in the above description as the preferred-embodi ment, is the most efiicient and practical; yet

realizing the conditions will necessarily vary,

I desire to emphasize that various minor changes in details of construction, proportion and arrangement of parts, may be resort-edto within the scopeof the appended claimswithout departing'from or sacrificing any of the principles of thisinvention.

Having thus described my invention, what I desire protected by Letters Patent is as set forthin the following claims: p

1. A holding device embodying spaced pairs of interconnectedcomplemental members, the members of each pair being formed with undulations throughout their lengths, a picture adapted to be inserted between the members, a handle connected with said device coincident with the median line between said pairs, whereby pivotal actuation of said handle efiiects optical distortional variations throughout the surfacearea of said picture. 2. holding device embodying spaced pairs of complemental members, means interconnecting the upper and lower ends of the respectivemembers of each pair, the members of each pair being formed with corresponding undulations throughout their tions including side and end members, the respective side members being formed with corresponding undulations throughout their lengths and adapted to receive a picture therebetween with the pictorial representation bounded by the frame, a handle connected to the lower end of one of the frame sections centrally of its length, a complemental projection carried by the other section, and means for detachably connecting said handleand projection, whereby pivotal actuation of said handle on its vertical axis coincident with the median line of said picspective edges of a picture with the pictorial representation bounded by said sections, one of said sections terminating centrally of its lower end in ahand-le member,-and means for detachably connecting said sections, whereby pivotal actuation of said handle on its vertical axis coincident with the median line of the picture effects optical distortional variationsthroughout the surface area of-said picture. 7

ARTHUR SAMUEL lengths, a ,picture-adapted-to be inserted betweenthe-members with the pictorial representation intermediate said pairs, a handle means associated with the means interconnecting the lower ends of said members c0- incident with the median line between said members and of said picture, whereby piv- I ot-al actuation of said handle on'it's vertical axis coincident with the median line of said picture effects optical distortional variations throughout the surface areaof said picture.

3. A holding device embodying a pair of frame sections, including side and end members,.the side members of the respectlve sections adapted to receive a picturether'ebetween and formed with corresponding undulations throughout their lengths, means for detachably connecting the sections,andhandle means associated with one end of'the respective sections coincident, with the median lines of the picture, whereby pivotal actuation of said handle on its vertical axis coincident with the median line'of said picture effects optical 'distortional variations throughout the surface area thereof.

4. A holding device embodying a pair of 'hingedly-"connected complemental frame sec- 

